A government panel is now recommending annual CT scans for lung cancer for people at highest risk of the disease, a move that it says could reduce the number of deaths from lung cancer each year.
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An influential group of government advisers has endorsed lung cancer screening for the first time — but not for everybody. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is proposing annual CT scans, a type of X-ray, for certain current and former smokers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis won an important endorsement of its new inhaled medicine for chronic lung disease on Friday when European regulators recommended approval of Ultibro Breezhaler.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using low-dose CT scans to screen high-risk patients for lung tumors is far more effective at preventing lung cancer deaths than scanning those at low risk, according to a new analysis of over 53,000 volunteers.
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A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who had a pair of adult-lung transplants after her parents sued to change national rules regarding organ donations has developed pneumonia in her right lung, which her mother described on Monday as "a large setback."
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Sarah Murnaghan, 10, is still in the hospital this weekend with another surgery scheduled Monday, after enduring two different lung transplants. Sarah’s parents fought a court battle earlier this month to move her off a children’s waiting list and allow her to receive a set of adult lungs instead. N

Sarah Murnaghan, whose parents fought a court battle to move her off a children’s waiting list for the lungs she desperately needed, has now received a second pair of lungs after the first ones failed. NBC’s Kate Snow reports.

Ann and Ed Bartlinski already had eight children at home when they adopted Teresa, then 3, from China, who needed urgent help due to heart and lung issues. Teresa is now in “extremely critical” condition after a heart transplant last week, but her parents say she’s “a fighter.” NBC’s Tom Costello re